Railroad ties for our backyard improvement project. These will become stairs for our step hill that drops off behind our house.

Toxic culture for sure. It's totally possible to create the kinds of connections and learning for remote people that Schmidt thinks require being in person.

“Fish” can refer to a single individual, or multiple individuals from the same species. “Fishes” refers to multiple species. 🐠 Fish 🐠🐠🐠 Fish 🐠🐟🐡 Fishes

Just got some thunder and lightnight about 10 minutes ago in Santa Cruz

A nice "heredoc" tutorial for bash. And these... bat - cat(1) clone with syntax highlighting and git integration nl - number lines of files youtu.be/-a1VAole01s?...

They’re just saying it out loud

This is pretty cool! community.wmo.int/en/activity-...

They just tear-gassed us. They tried to run us over in a van holding a peaceful protester. They shot us with pepper balls. They dragged another protester into the facility.

As of just now, Google is again a Silver Sponsor of GDAL. Thanks to all the people in GDAL, NumFocus, and Google who helped to make it through the process. Big company processes can be challenging to navigate. And a thanks to all the other sponsors! You rock! github.com/OSGeo/gdal/p...

Tonight's sunset in Santa Cruz, CA.

Did a KPop Demon Hunter draw along with my daughter.

Tick tock... I'm just sitting here waiting for @scalzi.com 's latest book, the Shattering Peace. As my kids would say, "I'm bored!"

Another Santa Cruz, CA sunset.

Ahhhhh. Foo(param1, param2, param3...) from "Standout BAD HABITS Even Senior Programmers Have" youtu.be/nY6RExFP0G0?...

My spouse was having a hard time finding the correct URL for a particular open license. I just got to introduce her to spdx.org/licenses/ and that immediately solved her issue. Thank you to who ever is behind that list. You rock!

The spiders are sensing that Halloween is not far away.

JUST A SINGLE WEEK exists between today and the official release of The Shattering Peace! You can still pre-order from your favorite bookseller, or come see me on my US tour! Dates and ticket information are at the link! us.macmillan.com/tours/john-s...

The software supply chain is like a meat processing plant full of rats. At least that is the best analogy I can come up with at the moment

Trying to better understand cmake... github.com/schwehr/liba...

In general, Alice isn't a lap cat, but sometimes she demands a human to lay on. #caturday

Another Santa Cruz, CA sunset from last week.

If you're 60, 69.1% of all job growth since your birth occurred under Democratic administrations. If you're 45, that number is 74.7%. If you're under 28, the number is 100%. Happy Labor Day.

Not a top seller this 3 day weekend

Santa Cruz sunset earlier this week.

ISC Grant Program for work on R - apply during September. This has support mapview and sf in the past, so spatial folks, you are on notice! Please do some cool stuff! r-consortium.org/all-projects...

CVE-2015-7313 is now "cpe:2.3:a:libtiff:libtiff:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Up to (excluding) 4.0.7" with the "Up to" part being new in the last hour. Thanks to the NVD Team at NIST for a quick fix. nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/...

My first interaction with mitre about a CVE... I reported that this "cpe:2.3:a:libtiff:libtiff:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*" for CVE-2015-7313 is totally bogus as the bug is definitely fixed on or before libtiff 4.0.7 back in 2016.

Good lord. I have spent a lot of time with bash, but this is insane. youtu.be/U4CzyBXyOms?...

So many birds

Sooo many birds at sea... Seacliff beach, aptos, ca

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

Some days I really hate the C preprecessor (CPP). The HDF5 macros are triggering. The rest of the days it just mild frustration. github.com/HDFGroup/hdf...

Aaah! Stop the stupidity. news.slashdot.org/story/25/08/... And yes, I still read /. after almost 30 years.

Good lord. I saw early navy drone boats at PT Loma more than 20 years ago. With 20 years of R&D, things should be in amazingly good shape.

I don’t know who needs to hear this But “citizen science” does not mean random untrained people guessing what to do and reinventing the wheel poorly It means trained volunteers under the supervision of a credentialed professional who designs the study and analyzes the data.

Can't wait!!! 📖📖📖

The Spill of National Significance (SONS) 2010 drill not that many days before the Deep Water Horizon (DWH) exploded. In the foreground are Amy Merten and Michele Jacobi introducing NOAA's Environmental Response Management Application (ERMA) to the response community. And the old way...

I'm moving a photo archive from one platform to another an running into some fun old photos. Here is a Gavia AUV surveying in Mendums Pond, Barrington, NH more than 20 years ago.

I very much appreciate the new GDAL vector driver in 3.11. "the ultimate driver that can read any vector format" gdal.org/en/stable/dr...

Working at massive scale is sometimes weird. I work on a system where unittest are run from files served by a Content-addressable storage filesystem. As a result the readlink() function doesn't behave as you might normally expect. More here if you find that interesting :) github.com/OSGeo/gdal/i...

JFAST Drill Site--the experiment to drill the fault that slipped during the 9.1 Mw magnitude 2011 Tohoku Earthquake--on an active source cross-section sampling the fault. Thick lines are structures in the subducting plate, thin lines are in the overlying plate. www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

More tacky trash.

My comments with @factcheck.org www.factcheck.org/2025/08/rfk-...

Found an old nagios graph from ERMA's N-AIS feed from Nov 2010. Serving critical national infrastructure from a small machine the University of New Hampshire. Stressful times.

USCG says the disaster was preventable. Uh, no shit. I am not even going to bother going to that article. Maybe if someone wrote an article on what they did correctly, I would read that. But I am sure it would be a short piece. ☹️

My latest for American Scientist Magazine helps give scientists the tools to fight back against politicized charges that our research is silly or pointless- tools that will work whether you’re asked “why are we funding this” from your asshole uncle at Thanksgiving or an asshole US Senator. 🧪🌎

I love this Makani ocean wind power video. This is still one of the most amazing engineering accomplishments I've seen in a long time. www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6NW...

Been going nuts on the C++ fixes for libais running through complaints with clang-tidy-19 on `ais.h` as fast as I can. 12 commits is pretty good for a Sunday morning.